Kepler-70b is the 11th Interstellar Object, the 4th Exoplanet and the 1st Earth Like obtained in The Beyond Bubble Universe, which can generate Stardust. (Unlocked at Rank 20, branching off of Awohali)
In-Game Description[]
"After surviving its star’s red giant phase, Kepler-70b emerged as a small, rocky core of its former self—about the size of Earth. Its surface is hotter than our Sun, soft and molten. The planet is slowly evaporating as it orbits a dim, dying parent star every 4.8 hours."
Traits[]
Common[]
- Rocky Earthlike (Speed):
"Kepler-70b is a rocky planet that’s earthlike in composition and size. But earthlikes can range from terrestrial to a rock/gas mix to dense gas only. Snowball planets with a frozen surface and water worlds with an ocean surface are also possible."
- Super-Earth System (Payout):
"Super-Earths are two to 10 times more massive than Earth. The TOI 270 system has at least three of them, all closely orbiting a red dwarf. TOI 270 b is likely rocky, but TOI 270 c and d are more massive and probably a mix of gas and rock—more like sub-Neptunes."
Rare[]
- Indirect Observation (Payout):
"Most exoplanets are found by their effects. A planet passes in front of a distant star, and its gravity bends the starlight. Or it transits its own star and briefly dims it. Or its gravity makes the star wobble, shifting the spectrum red or blue—the radial velocity method."
Epic[]
- Cosmology (Speed):
"The scientific study of the universe asks the very biggest questions. How did it form? What came before? How does it work? Is it infinite? Will it die? All the pieces we observe—comets, moons, planets, stars, galaxies, nebulae, and even voids—provide some answers."
- Dark Matter (Payout):
"Dark matter acts like a superhero. It’s everywhere in space and yet invisible. Its gravity distorts huge objects that we can see. It can even buttress a dwarf galaxy against annihilation by a giant one. The duo of dark matter and dark energy make up 95% of the universe."
- Dark Energy (Discount):
"Little is known about dark energy, except that it’s repulsive. Opposing gravity, this strange force causes matter to scatter rather than attract, pushing our universe to expand faster and faster. Dark energy makes up 68% of the universe’s mass-energy density."
Constellations[]
- Eridanus (1.5x Speed):
"Eridanus, The River, is the longest constellation in the sky. It starts near Rigel and twists and turns all the way to its brightest star, Achernar (“River’s End” in Arabic). It was named after Eridu, an early Sumerian city in the marshes of what is now southern Iraq."
- Canis Major (2x Speed):
"Imagine Canis Major, a “Great Dog,” on two hind legs, chasing Lepus the Hare. Or maybe it’s bounding after Orion the Hunter. Meanwhile, Orion’s blue-gemmed belt points back to Sirius, the bright star that bejewels the Great Dog’s neck. A storybook in the sky!"
- Lyra (1.5x Speed):
"Lyra depicts the stringed instrument of Orpheus, a mythical Greek poet said to charm rocks and streams with his songs. Vega, a dazzling white dwarf, is the baseline for comparing color and brightness in other stars. Its apparent magnitude is 0.0."
System Components[]
Exoplanet[]
Kepler-70b (formerly known as its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-55.01; sometimes listed as KOI-55 b) is one of two postulated exoplanets orbiting the subdwarf B star Kepler-70.
Achievements[]
- Alien Neighbors? (Rank 3):
"Is there alien life next door? In Alpha Centauri’s system, Proxima b is the nearest exoplanet to Earth. It might be earthlike and even habitable, with a sister planet nearby. But despite its nearness, data readings are tough to parse with three stars in the mix."
- Fuzzy Brown Dwarfs (Rank 6):
"Our exoplanet quest is new, distances are vast, and identifications are fuzzy—with tricksters in the mix. Brown dwarfs can be easily mistaken for exoplanets. These dim, failed stars have too little mass to ignite nuclear fusion but more mass than a planet."
Real Image[]
Hypothetical image of Kepler-70b
Sources[]
- Kepler-70b — image above taken
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